Ever wonder where Hollywood writers get their ideas for the next new blockbuster film? It might surprise you to learn that many current Hollywood films are actually based on books! In fact did you know that anticipated films such as The Fault in Our Stars, The Maze Runner and Gone Girl along with recent release Divergent were actually successful books before being remade for the big screen.

Check out the trailers below for some films coming to theaters in 2014 and check the display in the library to read the book before you see the movie.

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Congratulations to 12 Years a Slave for winning Best Picture at the 2014 Oscar Awards.

Did you know that 12 Years a Slave and4 of the other films nominated for Best Picture were based on books?

12 Year's a Slave

Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periodsin American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.

To find out what other nominated films are also books, continue reading below.